Swimmer's Daily

  • Brian Tomlinson lost his leg to cancer but always had dreams of joining the military or becoming a military police officer, and last night that dream came true thanks to the Athol Police Department.

  • The first batch of Adidas footwear to be produced using ocean plastic has been made available. The sportswear brand partnered with Parley for the Oceans to create the Adidas x Parley, which is made with plastics collected in coastal areas of the Maldives, as well as illegal deep-sea gill nets.

    The material produced is called Parley Ocean Plastic

    Read Gizmag and see Adidas

    https://youtu.be/eoAUYxIjD-8

    https://youtu.be/U7K8VIqmj-M

  • In a pre-sentencing letter to the judge released today by the New York Times,convicted rapist Brock Turner fails to own any responsibility for raping an unconscious woman behind a trash dumpster on Jan. 17, 2015. Turner’s plea letter reads like a laundry list of white male privilege lost. It touched the white male judge in all the right places. Turner begs for leniency in his letter, and he got it.

    “I’ve been shattered by the party culture and risk taking behavior that I briefly experienced in my four months at school,” writes the former Stanford University student. “I’ve lost my chance to swim in the Olympics.”

    Turner blames the sexual assault he committed on a campus culture of excessive alcohol consumption, peer pressure, and “sexual promiscuity.”

    There’s no way Brock Allan Turner–oh by the way, did you see his swimming times?–could have raped a woman because he’s a fucking rapist.

    In a letter to Judge Aaron Persky of the Santa Clara County Superior Court which was submitted before his ridiculously wrist-slap of a sentence, Turner says: “I am the sole proprietor of what happened on the night that changed these people’s lives forever. I would give anything to change what happened.”

    The New York Times published a copy of his letter today. In it, Turner also says that his decision to rape an unconscious woman behind a trash dumpster on the Stanford campus left him “a changed person.” I’ll bet! It changed the woman he raped, too.

    Read boingboing

    https://youtu.be/2zVRlW5nd18

    https://youtu.be/OaHi0n9Mhgo

    https://youtu.be/3d0MmrLmafI

  • Can’t stop swimming even when you’re not in the pool? Upload your Airswim for a chance to feature in our final edit of the best swims on dry land! How to enter: Upload your Airswim to Instagram or Twitter, @speedo and use the hashtag #NeverStopSwimming

    Featuring Mack Horton (AUS), Ryan Lochte (USA), Ye Shiwen (CHN), Conor Dwyer (USA), James Guy (GBR), Lauren Boyle (NZL), Elizabeth Beisel (USA), Nathan Adrian (USA), Ryan Cochrane (CAN), Thiago Pereira (BRA), Tyler Clary (USA), Sun Yang (CHN), Olesya Vladykina (RUS), Femke Heemskerk (NED), Sophie Pascoe (NZL), Missy Franklin (USA), Jessica Hardy (USA).

  • Last week, 20-year-old Stanford swimmer Brock Turner was sentenced to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. Turner was facing up to 20 years, and the lenient sentence has drawn criticism from observers — including the victim, who had pushed in court for a harsh punishment. Judy Woodruff talks to Michelle Anderson of City University of New York for more on the case.

  • https://youtu.be/-t3Y5TGjQ6s

  • The swim across Grand Harbour held by Valletta 18 on Tuesday as part of celebrations for Valletta’s 450th anniversary has sent the wrong message to bathers as the activity was held in an industrial port where sea-water is not tested by health authorities, sources told The Malta Independent.

    Read The Malta Independent

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  • It was the epitome of white privilege, the narrative went — a student and star swimmer at prestigious Stanford University is arrested on rape-related charges, and after more than 16 months, he’s sentenced to only six months.

    And the authorities refuse to let the public see his arrest photo.

    Until Monday, when Stanford and Santa Clara County authorities finally released not one, but two mugshots of Brock Turner, 20, who was convicted in March of assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated woman, sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object and sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object.

    See NBC News

    https://youtu.be/EtTPH_RvcT0

  • Thanks to a software update being issued today, TomTom’s action camera — the Bandit — is going to start correcting for this automatically, removing the need for extra equipment. That’s great, especially because we really like the Bandit here at The Verge. It doesn’t shoot the same great footage you’d get from a GoPro, and Sony’s Action Cams have been doing this for a while, but this is the latest example of TomTom trying to use software in order to make the Bandit stand out from the crowd.

    See The Verge

    https://youtu.be/bYppZmr6yjE